Paul Boutin

FAQ: What am I working on?

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New York Times - computers, cellphones, cameras, TV, plus any Web 2.0 stuff that survives Uncov.
Sample article: A Universe of Gadget Advice

Wall Street Journal - book reviews on tech and science.
Sample article: The Apple of his iBook

Valleywag - Silicon Valley Users Guide, general griping.
Sample article: How to Remain an Anonymous Critic

Slate - pop-culture technology, technology pop culture.
Sample article: A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace

Wired - whatever they want. I'm just a churl who cain't say no.
Sample article: What We Don't Know

I also just filed 25 Days That Changed Everything for PC World's 25th anniversary.

Bulldog pups for everyone

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Are we all gwumpy today? Let Professor Chips soothe your angry angry heart.

NYT home page

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Five seconds of gloating, ok? Alright, done. I'll be doing technology articles for non-technologists in the Times, starting with this guide to online gadget gift shopping.

Season's Greetings from the 13th floor

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It's my birthday. New sunglasses. Again. The animatronic reindeer -- one big, one little -- are watching over San Francisco from the balcony behind me.

More Valleywag traffic charts

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By popular demand: Google Analytics screenshots of VW top content, new-vs-returning visitors, and other stats from a typical weekday. Click the thumbnails for full size. I'm always skeptical of anything more abstracted than an httpd access log, but Google dashboards are prettier to look at.

Valleywag crosses the 100,000 mark

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It's taken nearly two years, but our little Silicon Valley gossip blog now pulls 100,000-plus pageviews a day regularly, even on Saturday. Credit goes to Owen Thomas's scorched-earth strategy: Hire enough writers to put up two to three dozen posts every day. I'm a mere 5 percent of volume, because I only post at night and early in the morning when I'm not working. But still, it's stupidly fun to be part of the site.