5,000 Emails Revisited
On building a website
For the last few weeks (months?), there have been persistent rumors about the existence of 5,000 leaked emails from inside the City of Dallas, its staff and council people. It was at times unclear what these emails did or didn’t say, and who did or did not have a copy of them.
There is the version of the emails allegedly reviewed but not published by Councilmember Adam Bazaldua, a copy that the Dallas Morning News obtained (which I wrote about here), a corpus that D Magazine requested under public information laws but have been stonewalled on thus far, and now a version obtained by Councilmember Paul Ridley and shared for downloading by veteran Dallas journalist Jim Schutze, on a new website aptly named dallascityhallemails.com.
The 5,000 emails that everyone in Dallas has been dying to read for weeks are now public. It’s just out there as one giant PDF document.
Here’s the fun part, and why I am bothering you all again about these emails. I took the liberty of setting up a website that lets you interact with the leaked emails as if it were your G-mail inbox.
We’ll call it D-mail.
Actually, now that I think about it. Let’s not call it that.
Here’s the website:
https://emails.onemansdallas.com/
Have fun. Use it, responsibly?
Note: I don’t know how to properly thank or give credit to Schutze for obtaining and publishing the emails. In lieu of that, here are links to support his latest book Pontiac, published by local non-profit publisher Deep Vellum. Also, if you are reading my blog and you have never read his book The Accommodation (I do not suspect such a person exists) go pick up a copy today.