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Over the last few months we’ve been gathering data from the major social news and bookmark sites and looking at the type of stories that reach the popular pages on these sites. After much cursing and many finger cramps, we now have collected enough data to analyse monthly changes in popular topics. The results might not be what you expected.

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So what was the most popular type of content on social news and social bookmark sites this January? You can see last months stats here and this month we have included analysis of another two sites, Mixx and Shoutwire.

We analysed approximately 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us and Mixx to see what types of content were the most popular in January 2008 (500 stories for each site, not in total).

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The forthcoming US Elections have dominated the news for the last few months and that trend looks set to continue throughout 2008.

With the mainstream media beginning to recognise the importance of social media to the candidates involved, we decided to analyse the front-page stories from the 2008 U.S Elections category to find out what the results would be if the US elections were held on Digg.

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Ever wonder what kind of content is most popular on the various social news sites? Well wonder no more…

We analysed over 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to try and determine what type of content is generally popular on each site (Note: this is 500+ stories for each site not the total).

Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon and Propeller all seem to only include the popular stories in their feeds. Reddit may also include stories that get votes rapidly over a short period of time. The results are based on RSS feed data so some stories may have been buried after we included them.