Thing 12

How do you think you can use these tools in your library or at home?
For either home or the library the news is coming right to me. Using any of the listed choices - I liked Newsvine and Mixx - you can glance at what is new and what is interesting to other readers. Taking a look at these each day would at least keep me up to speed as I don't usually have time to read the newspapers.

Do these tools seem to be a productivity enhancer or a productivity detractor?
They could be both an enhancer and a detractor as many of these 23 things on a stick can be. Need to be used to save us time. I can see how many of these could be addicting and too much time spend on them.