As mentioned in my recent post at Tropophilia, I’m experimenting with a service called Apture that aims to give publishers tools to add rich content to their site without losing their visitors.  It also provides a handy way for readers to easily evaluate a link and decide if it’s worth navigating to (or opening in a new background tab).

Let’s put it to the test on my bio to see some of the available options. (Update: I would never use Apture for all or even many of my links.  I would be much for selective in real use, trying only to implement it when I think readers would appreciate it or find it useful.)

I work for Google as a legal assistant on the Product Counsel team.  I will be attending William & Mary Law School beginning in August 2010.  I am primarily interested in Internet Law, which is really to say the impact of the web on copyright, trademark, jurisdiction, competition, freedom of expression, and other fun stuff.

I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, but I don’t a southern accent.  I know, right?  My parents met in law school, and my father continues to practice in Birmingham.  My younger brother is a soon-to-be graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and will move to San Diego as an ensign.

I attended The Altamont School where I learned to write decently, speak some French, and play the drums.  I  was active in the Boy Scouts, earning my Eagle Scout rank in 2001.  I can tie a mean bowline knot.

Davidson College was my home for three of four undergraduate years (I spent my junior year in France).  I majored in Political Science and French, enjoyed playing drums for the Wildcats Pep Band, and held a variety of leadership positions with the student radio station, WALT.  I graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.During my undergraduate summers, I worked as an assistant paralegal at Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC in Birmingham, as a Europe Program intern with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., and as a research assistant for Dr. Patrick Sellers at Davidson College.

After graduating from college in 2007, I moved to Washington, D.C. to join Williams & Connolly LLP as a paralegal.  A year later, I moved across the country to Mountain View, CA to join Google.  I currently live in San Francisco.

From 2005 to 2007, I kept a personal blog (now retired) to chronicle my adventures in France. In 2008, I took up blogging again by starting Tropophilia with my best friend Taylor .