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Continuing the series of social news and bookmark popular story statistics, we bring you the March 2008 update.

Once again, we looked at approximately 500 stories that were popular on Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us and Propeller. Although 500 is a relatively small number of the articles that reach the popular pages each month, the graphs should still provide a useful indication as to what topics are generally popular on the major social news and bookmark sites.

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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.