Yeah, that's selective outlining with internal anti-aliasing in that tutorial. It's very discrete selout, though, so you might actually want to call it... varying outline strength or something. Because it IS fully outlined, not selectively outlined.
Also, Evil-Ville, that's not reverse anti-aliasing. The definition of AA is to remove jaggies (aliasing). That doesn't remove jaggies, so it's not anti-aliasing.