Really? Looked to me like he integrated some interesting materials to make a cogent point. But if he is just blog pimping, then I retract and apologize for my prior comment.
If you want to determine whether he’s a blogpimp, all you have to do is look at his posting history.
Out of the last 100 posts (all made from the same blog, and all excerpted) he has made exactly one reply to a posted comment on his threads.
That comment was (verbatim):
“you’re welcome” (sic)