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In a digital sense, the release of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email records could not have been more of a disaster. The Freedom of Information Act win by various media organizations to have the emails disclosed resulted in 24,000 printed pages and 14,000 emails. The scope of the documents was so cumbersome that even the New York Times crowd sourced triage of Palin's correspondence.

The Sunlight Foundation, an open government advocacy group, is creating a database those emails that have been scanned by investigative journalism non-progit ProPublica. Dubbed Sarah's Inbox, the database is similar to the interface of Gmail and can be searched by keyword, data or common phrase. You can even "star" ones that are important.

Tomorrow, the State of Alaska is set to release over 24,000 of Sarah Palin's emails, "covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska." The New York Times is hoping that its readers will pitch in and help them filter this vast cache of new data on the former governor and erstwhile vice presidential candidate. Derek Willis announced the project on the Times's Caucus blog.

"We're asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address so we'll know who should get the credit. Join us here on Friday afternoon and into the weekend to participate."

Last week, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a highly idiosyncratic (read: inaccurate) portrait of American revolutionary figure Paul Revere to the media. Now, a struggle has broken out on Wikipedia over Ms. Palin's version of history.

Her version was that Paul Revere rode through Boston, ringing a bell, to announce to the British that the colonials were preparing to fight. This is not remotely true. He rode silently, to let the revolutionaries know the British were en route.

Update after the jump.

Today, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of David Kernell, the 20-year old son of a Tennessee state representative, on allegations of hacking vice-presidential-candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account.

The indictment alleges that Kernell gained access to Palin's Yahoo! Mail account, changed the password, took screenshots of the contents, and posted both the password and images to the Web. In a video interview (after the jump), famed former-hacker Kevin Mitnick says Kernell could face a harsh penalty.