Paul Boutin

Paul Boutin
Born (1961-12-11) December 11, 1961
Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
Nationality American

Paul Boutin (born December 11, 1961 in Lewiston, Maine) is an American magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context.[1]

Boutin, who began writing for Wired in 1997,[2] has written for The New York Times since 2003,[3] covers emerging technologies for MIT's Technology Review,[4] and is a freelancer for Newsweek.[5] From 2009–2010 he covered Internet business and culture for VentureBeat.[6] He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag from 2006 to 2008,[7] and a tech columnist for Slate from 2002 to 2008.[8]

His work has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, MSNBC, Reader's Digest, Adweek, Engadget, Salon.com, Outside, Cargo, Business 2.0, the Independent Film & Video Monthly, InfoWorld and PC World.[9]

Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at MIT, where he worked on Project Athena,[10] and at several Internet-related startup companies in Silicon Valley including Splunk.[11] He lives in Los Angeles, California.

References

  1. ↑ "Life in Baghdad via the web". BBC News. 25 March 2003.
  2. ↑ Wired. "Conquering Codephobia". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  3. ↑ Boutin, Paul (2003-02-27). "Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  4. ↑ "MIT Technology Review". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  5. ↑ "Paul Boutin". Newsweek. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  6. ↑ "Paul Boutin". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  7. ↑ Boutin, Paul. "The 250". Gawker. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  8. ↑ "Paul Boutin". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  9. ↑ Cory Doctorow (2002). Essential Blogging. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00388-9.
  10. ↑ http://simson.net/ref/athena/Athena_Open_To_Students.pdf
  11. ↑ Boutin, Paul (2006-08-11). "You Are What You Search". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2016-12-18.


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