Paul Boutin

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

Paul Boutin
Born (1961-12-11) December 11, 1961
NationalityAmerican

Boutin, who began writing for Wired in 1997,[2] wrote for The New York Times from 2003 to 2013,[3] covered emerging technologies for MIT's Technology Review,[4] and was a freelancer for Newsweek.[5] From 2009 to 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] Today he lives in Camarillo, California and works as a strategy consultant to tech startups.

References

  1. "Life in Baghdad via the web". BBC News. March 25, 2003.
  2. Wired. "Conquering Codephobia". WIRED. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  3. Boutin, Paul (February 27, 2003). "Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  4. "MIT Technology Review". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  5. "Paul Boutin". Newsweek. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  6. "Paul Boutin". VentureBeat. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  7. Boutin, Paul. "The 250". Gawker. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  8. "Paul Boutin". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  9. Cory Doctorow (2002). Essential Blogging. O'Reilly. p. 2. ISBN 0-596-00388-9. Paul Boutin journalist.
  10. "MIT's Project AthenaannouncesThe Grand Openingon March 19, 1985 of the Student Center Cluster" (PDF).
  11. Boutin, Paul (August 11, 2006). "You Are What You Search". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved December 18, 2016.


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