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 about social networks for the New York Times and covers the iPhone, Apple social networks and digital media for VentureBeat. He also contributes essays to Wired and does book reviews for the Wall Street Journal. He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag from 2006 to 2008, and a tech columnist for Slate from 2002 to 2008. 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 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.
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- ^ Life in Baghdad via the web, BBC News, 25 March, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2881491.stm
- ^ Cory Doctorow (2002). Essential Blogging. O'Reilly. ISBN 0596003889. 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.
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