Alt: Screenshot of a Mastodon post made by Tim Berners-Lee which says “In 4 days my memoir ‘This Is for Everyone’ will be published. The book tour kicks off the same day with many more events following. Follow the journey on the book’s Instagram page [link to Instragram page].”
Link: https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Edit: but yeah don’t see anything about the “journey” on his page sadly. Guess that’s instagram only…
Edit 2: here’s the instagram page via an alternative frontend that doesn’t require an account: https://imginn.com/sirtimbernersleeforeveryone/
I was going to say it would be really funny if he also had the domain timblr . com but apparently tumblr covered that for typos, ruining the joke potential
Dammit. That would have been kinda cool.
Huh? This is a book. You can just go to a bookstore, buy the book and read it. You don’t need to follow any social media on order to read a book. Yes, the book has it’s own Instagram account, like so many things do, but you are free to simply ignore that.
It’s the inventor of the internet locking themself into the modern closed internet. It’s poetic.
Except he didn’t write this, his publicist did.
HVAE THEE CURSE OF RA! /s
Still, the publicist should know the potential implications of sharing links to traditional social media on Mastodon (or BlueSky, for that matter).
It’s well within his job description to know that.
