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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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We show you how in one line of a poem, Raymond Carver gives us the best lesson of all in how to create content.

Henry David Thoreau once said, “…most men lead lives of quiet desperation“. That phrase epitomises the life and work of Raymond Carver.

Carver was a short story writer and poet. Much of his writing reflects his personal struggles with alcoholism and domestic life. His short stories are bleak and touching, but never sentimental.