Pushing versus pulling personal content

So I was thinking about this right now as I was wondering about how an old friend of mine is doing. If he had a blog he updated regularly I could just check his blog out to see how he's doing. He takes pictures, and used to e-mail links to them out, but I haven't heard anything. The problem is, if you push content like links to his pictures, you feel like you're bothering people even if you will take them off the list if they don't post them. On the other hand, if you just post somewhere then people can check it as they want. The only problem is that if people don't comment, you feel like they don't care and stop posting.

Well, maybe what I should do is maintain a bookmark page to check daily. Put the list I do on it, but I'm sure there's already some web tool to do that. Well, we'll see how it goes, for now I should track down those two sites.