'Paul Boutin' (born
1961 in
Lewiston, Maine,
United States) is a
magazine writer and editor who writes about
technology in a
pop-culture context.
[1]
Boutin writes regularly for ''
Slate'' and occasionally for the ''
Wall Street Journal''. He created ''
Valleywag's Silicon Valley Users Guide, and was both a senior editor and frequent writer for ''
Wired'' magazine. Slate editor Josh Levin has praised "his sense of a good idea, sparkling sentence-level writing, and knack for translating tech-speak."
His work has also appeared in the ''
New York Times'', ''
The New Republic'',
MSNBC, ''
Reader's Digest'',
Engadget,
Salon.com, ''
Outside'', ''
Cargo'', ''
Business 2.0'', the ''Independent Film & Video Monthly'', ''
InfoWorld'' and ''
PC World''.
[2]
Before turning pro as a
journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at
MIT, where he worked on
Project Athena, and at several Internet-related startup companies in
Silicon Valley. He lives in
San Francisco, California with his wife, Christina Noren.
References
1.
2. Essential Blogging, Cory Doctorow, , , O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN 0596003889
External links
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Paul Boutin website