Editing Paul Boutin

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| name          = Paul Boutin
| nationality   = [[United States|American]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1961|12|11}}
| birth_place   = [[Lewiston, Maine]], U.S.
| image         = PaulBoutinEncino2016.jpg
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'''Paul Boutin''' (born December 11, 1961, in [[Lewiston, Maine]]) is an American former [[magazine]] writer and editor who writes about [[technology]] in a [[pop-culture]] context.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2881491.stm |date=March 25, 2003 |title=Life in Baghdad via the web |work=[[BBC News]] }}</ref>

Boutin, who began writing for ''[[Wired magazine|Wired]]'' in 1997,<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1997/04/3024|title=Conquering Codephobia|last=Wired|magazine=WIRED|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> wrote for ''[[The New York Times]]'' from 2003 to 2013,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/technology/turning-the-desktop-into-a-meeting-place.html|title=Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place|last=Boutin|first=Paul|date=February 27, 2003|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> covered emerging technologies for MIT's [[Technology Review]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/paul-boutin/|title=MIT Technology Review|website=MIT Technology Review|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> and was a freelancer for [[Newsweek]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/user/19549|title=Paul Boutin|newspaper=Newsweek|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> From 2009 to 2010 he covered Internet business and culture for [[VentureBeat]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/author/paul-boutin/|title=Paul Boutin|website=VentureBeat|date=July 9, 2010 |access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site ''[[Valleywag]]'' from 2006 to 2008,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://gawker.com/368529/the-250|title=The 250|last=Boutin|first=Paul|newspaper=Gawker|language=en-US|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> and a tech columnist for ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' from 2002 to 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/authors.paul_boutin.html|title=Paul Boutin|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref>

His work has also appeared in'' [[Bloomberg Businessweek]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', [[MSNBC]], ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', ''[[Adweek]]'', ''[[Engadget]]'', ''[[Salon.com]]'', ''[[Outside (magazine)|Outside]]'', ''[[Cargo Magazine|Cargo]]'', ''[[Business 2.0]]'', the ''Independent Film & Video Monthly'', ''[[InfoWorld]]'' and ''[[PC World (magazine)|PC World]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Essential Blogging |author=Cory Doctorow |year=2002 |publisher=O'Reilly |isbn=0-596-00388-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780596003883|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780596003883/page/2 2] |quote=Paul Boutin journalist. }}</ref>

Before turning pro as a [[journalism|journalist]], he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at [[MIT]], where he worked on [[Project Athena]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=MIT's Project AthenaannouncesThe Grand Openingon March 19, 1985 of the Student Center Cluster|url=http://simson.net/ref/athena/Athena_Open_To_Students.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> and at several Internet-related startup companies in [[Silicon Valley]] including [[Splunk]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2006/08/you_are_what_you_search.html|title=You Are What You Search|last=Boutin|first=Paul|date=August 11, 2006|newspaper=Slate|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339|access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> Today he lives in [[Camarillo, California]] and works as a strategy consultant to tech startups. He is the creator and maintainer of the [https://github.com/pauleboutin/supervent supervent] open-source synthetic event generator.

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== External links ==
* [http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/author/paul-boutin New York Times author page]

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