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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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Do you write fiction and aspire to be the next Raymond Carver or Paul Auster? Are you hoping to one-day land a book deal with a large publishing house? Being a published author is an admirable dream, but you can look beyond publishing houses and even print-on-demand services and create your own fictional story using social media tools.

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Let’s face it, with all the mashed up buzzwords, consultants and vague lingo that could apply to your daily horoscopes flying around, it can be difficult to identify what social media can do for a business. Well, the answer to that is: what do you want it to do?

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Do you want to know what the most popular type of content on social news and social bookmark sites was this February?
We analysed around 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 February 2008 (500 stories for each site, not in total).

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