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The outrage over The Onion's Orson Wells-like faux terrorism tweets today has touched off a firestorm. Is The Onion shining a needed light on our reactionary culture? Should comedians be allowed to do whatever they deem satirical? Even we could not agree, as you can see in the comments within our post on The Onion's #CongressHostage tweets.

We asked you what you thought about the story and you answered and then we culled your responses from Twitter and Google Plus and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

As many print media outlets continue to struggle to find their place in an increasingly digital ecosystem, the satirical newspaper The Onion has managed to not only make the most the Web and social media, but also continue to expand into new markets and new mediums.

On the second day of ReadWriteWeb's 2Way Summit Tuesday, a team of Onion staffers walked attendees through the publication's history, from its fictitious beginnings in 1756 all the way to its modern experimentation with social media and expansion into broadcast.

I was one of the presenters at our 2WAY conference in New York City this week and was glad that I had an opportunity to meet so many movers and shakers as well as old friends. I wanted to give you some impressions from an enterprise IT perspective, and apologize in advance for filling this post with almost as many links as a Frank Rich column.

One thing is pretty clear to me: running a modern corporate Web site isn't getting any easier. It isn't just keeping up with the latest HTML5 tags and what features Microsoft and Mozilla are adding to their latest browsers (although both are worth tracking) - it is maintaining a complex ecosystem of a myriad of software tools, updating your corporate policies as new technologies take over the marketplace, finding people with the right skill mix and personalities to leverage new social media. (Oh, and also understanding how the Web has infiltrated just about everything that we do these days as Fred Wilson made abundantly clear during his speech).

In New York City, on the 16th floor of the Roger Smith Hotel, we caught up with social media superhero Baratunde Thurston, web editor for The Onion.

Thurston started getting into this whole "Internet" thing in simpler times when the social web was called Usenet. He now carves out his niche at the overlap of the Venn diagram of comedy, politics, and tech. As an official Internet old-timer who makes it his business to stay relevant, Thurston has particularly useful insights on the business of curating applicable content with great efficiency and timeliness.