I disagree with that. I read blog posts for the story, not for points. That's why I hate blogs that bold the key phrases. I want every phrase to be important, and I want the reading experience to be enjoyable. I could not care less about your 5 tips for getting more Twitter followers if all you write are the tips (instead of how you discovered them, or why you think they work).
I agree in principal, I hate those 'N tips for doing X' blog posts (and magazine articles) too. That format is so overused and so shallow. <3 Yegge and Paul Graham.
But not many bloggers are Yegge and Graham. And they don't beat around the bush with uneccessary verbiage either, as the OP was complaining about.
For example, I like Steve Yegge, not Jeff Atwood.