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Violet Blue: Awarded sex author, notorious sex columnist, CNET, Zero Day, ZDNet, privacy and security journo, Oprah's porn pundit, web celeb, incendiary device; constant controversy. Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

Violet Blue (complete bio here) is a CNET contributor, CBSi/ZDNet and Zero Day columnist and journalist, high-profile tech figure and one of Wired's Faces of Innovation. She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive mainstream media pundit (MacLife, CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show) and is interviewed, quoted and featured from ABC News to the Wall Street Journal.

A feature writer and columnist since 1998, Violet has authored and edited many award-winning, best selling books in six translations; a sample is on Oprah's website. She was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences globally, including ETech, LeWeb, SXSW: Interactive and two Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc. Watch her standing ovation sex and tech talk at Gnomedex.

The London Times named Blue one of the 40 bloggers who really count (2010).

"Superstar sex writer - Violet Blue." -Dan Savage

"Violet Blue is omnipresent on the Web." –Forbes

"America’s leading (very) public intellectual sexologist, Violet Blue." -The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

"Violet Blue is the leading sex educator for the Internet generation." -Webnation