Editor's note: This round-up will be ongoing today, so please check back for updates.
The six-box sets holding 24,199 pages of printed emails between members of the Palin administration have been distributed to the waiting crowd in Juneau after nearly three years of delay.
As the effort to comb through the massive public-records release begins in earnest, updates and statements are coming out across the Internet by the second.
Last year, Alaska Dispatch published a two-part series on the private email account Palin used while governor. The stories include emails that were leaked to Alaska Dispatch in early 2010. From that story, we reported that in a Feb. 2, 2007 email, just a couple of months after she was sworn in as governor, Palin told her inner circle, including family members, advisers and her chief of staff that "everyone and their mother" would be able to read emails sent to her official state-hosted account.
Today, Alaska Dispatch's own Amanda Coyne and Jill Burke are in Juneau along with dozens of other media members. They are combing through the records and sending updates as they find newsworthy items. Click here for the page where their brief reports will be collected throughout the day.
The following is a running list of developments collected from around the Internet, most recent first, which Alaska Dispatch staff will update throughout the day.
-- Shortly after 1 p.m. AKDT, another item appeared on Sarah Palin's Facebook avatar relating to the upcoming pro-Palin film, "The Undefeated." The post links to a short video excerpt that makes an analogy between the position of Alaska's governor and that of a company's CEO. The accompanying note says of the film, "I haven't seen the final product, but I sure liked the sneak peek and rough cut. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished film and really appreciate Steve Bannon sharing it with us all."
-- Before the documents were released, some large news outlets put out calls to readers for help in combing through them, which has upset people sympathetic to Palin. To confound the crowd-sourcing effort, early Friday morning, a contributor to the site Big Journalism advocated feeding irrelevant or misleading comments to such news outlets, in particular The Washington Post and The New York Times.
-- According to ABC News and The Daily Beast, the pre-release press conference a spokesperson for Gov. Parnell's office said that lawyers for the Palins made no redaction or witholding requests during the review process.
-- Estranged Palin campaign and administration aide Frank Bailey is fielding online questions, in a live Q-and-A hosted by The Washington Post. So far, no questions or answers appear on the page, but the submission feature still works.
-- SarahPAC treasurer Tim Crawford has issued a statement about the release (via CNN): "The thousands upon thousands of emails released today show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state. The emails detail a Governor hard at work. Everyone should read them."
-- At 9:04 a.m. AKDT, scant minutes after state workers began distributing boxes of correspondence in Juneau, Sarah Palin's official Facebook page passed along a link to the website of the feature-length film, "The Undefeated," which reflects favorably on her time as governor and which will reportedly debut in Iowa this June.