Paul Boutin

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]

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

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.