It's kinda fun thinking about Widgets the way we think about things what we grab and you can Grab Widgets (and measure them too) according to WidgetGirl who authors Widget Analytics in the Wild blog.

 “…People love these phrases - “grab my widget”, “he grabbed my widget”, “they grabbed the widget”….or any derivation thereof. This is why I am thinking we need to just take the term “placements” (which will still have it’s place in the Clearspring lexicon) and call them “Grabs” when it denotes a visitor performing an action to create a new placement of a widget. It is a verb, right? Once those placements (or Grabs) are being actively viewed by visitors, we can then defer back to just calling them “placements.”

Now, all we need is for someone to create a business card with a link to a customized Widget for that person and a byline "Please grab my Widget".  Or, what you do with my widget once you grab it is you own business.

It seems to me every time I grab the code to embed a widget it's measured and it's probably the single most important engagement metric for widgets - because that says someone is committed enough to copy the code and hopefully place it somewhere.