"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
Violet Blue (tinynibbles.com) is a top 25 Forbes "Web Celeb" and one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation." Blue is regarded as the foremost sexuality and technology futurist and sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (such as CNN, Attack of The Show and The Tyra Banks Show) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major publications and media outlets including Wired (and Wired UK), Newsweek, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Salon.com, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Cinematical, PBS: Mediashift, CBS, The History Channel, Esquire, Jane, Maxim, Marie Claire and more. Violet the author and editor of over two dozen award-winning, best selling books and is the sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a notorious blogger, high-profile tech personality, the first female podcaster, currently a reporter for long-running web TV show Geek Entertainment Television, and professional speaker.
Blue's many books have won numerous awards and accolades and have been translated into five languages. Blue connects with an audience of over 4 million readers a month with her weekly San Francisco Chronicle column "Open Source Sex", named for the intersection of technology and sex, and the free-flowing information exchange of the open source software movement. Forbes called her podcast (of the same name, Open Source Sex), "One of the Internet’s most popular podcasts.” In addition to her SF Chronicle column and guest blogging for sites such as Laughing Squid, Blue writes for media outlets such as Forbes, O: The Oprah Magazine, MacLife, and UN sponsored international health organization, RH Reality Check. She has contributed essays to eleven nonfiction books about sex and culture, and has been cited and quoted as a sex and future tech expert in print outlets ranging from Wired UK's "Experts Predict The Future" feature to David Levy's "Love + Sex With Robots."
Violet lectures about Internet sexuality to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley (Boalt; Samuelson Law Clinic), human sexuality programs at UCSF, tech conferences (ETech and SXSWi), volunteers as an advisor and instructor about sexual health and human sexuality to sex crisis counselors at community teaching institutions. Violet is considered an expert in the field of sex and technology, and has been invited to speak about the topic at conferences ranging from O’Reilly’s ETech and SXSW: Interactive to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.
