Paul Boutin (journalist)
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Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. He is currently Wired's managing editor for blogs.
Boutin has also written regularly for Slate and Valleywag. He is a contributing editor to Wired magazine, and most recently a book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. In the past his work has 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 .
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.