The idea that "a Reader could boost posts when they are from a feed that is not regularly updated" is implemented in Newsblur, my RSS reader of choice. They call it "Infrequent Site Stories" and it is a quite powerful tool to find interesting pieces of information in a huge number of posts. http://b...
I hadn’t been aware that any feed readers had this type of functionality! Glad to see it’s out there and others are considering implementing it.