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.^[1]

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.^[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.