Paul Boutin

For the French-born America audio engineer, see Paul Boutin (sound engineer).

Paul Boutin
Boutin in 2016
Born(1961-12-11)December 11, 1961
Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
DiedOctober 18, 2025(2025-10-18) (aged 63)

Paul Boutin (December 11, 1961 – October 18, 2025[1]) was an American magazine writer and editor who wrote about technology in a pop-culture context.[2]

Boutin, who began writing for Wired in 1997,[3] wrote for The New York Times from 2003 to 2013,[4] covered emerging technologies for MIT's Technology Review,[5] and was a freelancer for Newsweek.[6] From 2009 to 2010 he covered Internet business and culture for VentureBeat.[7] He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag from 2006 to 2008,[8] and a tech columnist for Slate from 2002 to 2008.[9]

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.[10]

Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at MIT, where he worked on Project Athena,[11] and at several Internet-related startup companies in Silicon Valley including Splunk.[12] Before his death, he worked as a strategy consultant to tech startups. He was the creator and maintainer of the supervent open-source synthetic event generator.

References

  1. ^ Noren, Christina. "announcement of death". Retrieved October 20, 2025.
  2. ^ "Life in Baghdad via the web". BBC News. March 25, 2003. Archived from the original on August 21, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  3. ^ Wired. "Conquering Codephobia". WIRED. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  4. ^ Boutin, Paul (February 27, 2003). "Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  5. ^ "MIT Technology Review". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  6. ^ "Paul Boutin". Newsweek. Archived from the original on June 30, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  7. ^ "Paul Boutin". VentureBeat. July 9, 2010. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  8. ^ Boutin, Paul. "The 250". Gawker. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  9. ^ "Paul Boutin". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  10. ^ Cory Doctorow (2002). Essential Blogging. O'Reilly. p. 2. ISBN 0-596-00388-9. Paul Boutin journalist.
  11. ^ "MIT's Project AthenaannouncesThe Grand Openingon March 19, 1985 of the Student Center Cluster" (PDF).
  12. ^ Boutin, Paul (August 11, 2006). "You Are What You Search". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
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