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Joi Ito discloses his graceful side

Joi ItoAfter Valleywag pointed out the unseemly appearance created when Six Apart funneling donations from users' purchases to charities tied to investor Joi Ito, the company -- right in keeping with its recent problems living up to its ideals of transparency -- never publicly conceded the existence of a conflict of interest. But today, Ito, to his supreme credit, did just that on his own blog -- and even acknowledged Valleywag in the post. Well done, Joi. If only the blog-software company you backed could learn from your example.

5:27 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By Owen Thomas
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