The Zoo

a) The Zoo is a collection of nearly 70,000 Categorized Newsfeeds and Blogs. We call these "Channels".

b) Context information about the Channel is shown here. In this example the link for the article "Ten-run rule getting a workout at tourney" is shown.

c) You can open other saved instances of the BigBlogZoo.

d) This is the save button for the BigBlogZoo

e) This is save-as button for the the BigBlogZoo

f) The BigBlogZoo has a central database where new channels are stored. When you press this button you synchronize the BigBlogZoo, meaning that you request all the new channels that other members of the zoo have recently submitted.

g) Here you can submit a channel into the BigBlogZoo.

h) This button will show you when articles have been updated.

i) This is a category.

j) This is the title of a channel.

k) This is the language of a channel.

l) This is the description of the channel.

m) This is the url of the channel. Double to click on this to refresh the channel. When there is a little plus to the left of the channel you can merely expand the channel. A refresh fetches fresh information from the source while expanding shows you the articles from the last refresh.

n) This is the first and normally the latest article in the channel. The little white tick mark indicates that you have read this articles.

o) These are more articles, the plus sign indicates that you have not read these articles.