I suppose that technically, it could be considered blasting but I have not ever seen any negative results from this.

Consider that even if you have some good lists, you probably only have a 2-3 thousand directories with the "ok" status. With one submission you will probably get about half of those to successfully submit. Out of those that are submitted, only 1/3 to 1/2 of those will actually post it and they will not post all at once they will show up over the course of a week or so in my experience. Then take into account that only a portion of those will get indexed by G.

When it is all said and done. I might get a couple hundred out of a "blast" which appear over the course of a week or two which doesn't seem very "blasty" to me...

You can use AMR, because not ALL of your links are going to be found by google at the same time.

If google was able to find all of your links at the same time, then you might have a problem.

Don't worry about it.

Blasting just implies a large quantity of links at once.

AMR can definitely do this if not used carefully. As a general rule, try to gradually build links instead of trying to build all your links overnight.

Yes of course it is but why the hell not do it, you dont want to submit to those directories by hand now do you?

When you get tonne of content or backlinks in one, you may call it blasting... And, blasting in any form, is dangerous for a website. I would advise you to stay away from it.

Can you use unique articles or just spun with AMR? Like posting 50 unique articles to 50 directories in a run.