- Paul Boutin (journalist)
Paul Boutin (born 1961 in
Lewiston, Maine ,United States ) is amagazine writer and editor who writes abouttechnology in apop-culture context. [citation|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2881491.stm |date=25 March, 2003|title= Life in Baghdad via the web|publisher=BBC News ]Boutin writes regularly for the "
New York Times ", "Slate", and "Valleywag ", and does book reviews for the "Wall Street Journal ". Slate editor Josh Levin has praised "his sense of a good idea, sparkling sentence-level writing, and knack for translating tech-speak." From 1996 to 2007 he was both a writer and editor for "Wired" magazine.His work has also appeared in "
The New Republic ",MSNBC , "Reader's Digest ",Engadget ,Salon.com , "Outside ", "Cargo ", "Business 2.0 ", the "Independent Film & Video Monthly", "InfoWorld " and "PC World". [cite book|title=Essential Blogging |author= Cory Doctorow|year= 2002|publisher=O'Reilly|id=ISBN 0596003889 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Kgz9lxh3JHoC&pg=PA2&ots=6yFU06PCxo&dq=%22Paul+Boutin%22+journalist&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=z1cYItluZskc7pYQYbRp-NKWB1Y]Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at
MIT , where he worked onProject Athena , and at several Internet-related startup companies inSilicon Valley . He lives inSan Francisco, California .References
External links
* [http://www.paulboutin.com Paul Boutin website]
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