you just have to pick the right users to follow - this tool will do the rest for you: http://diggexpress.com a tool that allows me to follow any digg user submissions and get notified about them instantly. - that's the easiest and fastest way to gain friend - help them push their stories. once you have a ton of good friends getting to the top is just a breeze. Feel free to leave me any feedback about it
hope it helps you, i would also appreciate some feedback and reviews. if you believe there should be some modification just let me know
actually its misleading... you need to enter peoples names in order to see when they publish things. They way you described it made me think it was going to be something that notifies you of any new articles /