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This annoucement came from the Yahoo Message Board. It's a great news source, but what's depressing is the number of crime reports on it. Hello Everyone, We're happy to announce that Oakland Crimespotting is back, thanks to the generous help of Oakland's City Information Technology Department. After three months without access to report data, we've been granted a reliable, regularly-updated source of crime report information. This is great news: it means that the website is back up and running with current information, e-mail alerts and RSS feeds work again, and we at Stamen Design can explore new ways of presenting and publishing this important information. Here are a few things you can do, now: Visit the site at http://oakland.crimespotting.org/ View a map at http://oakland.crimespotting.org/map/ Sign up for alerts at http://oakland.crimespotting.org/alerts We are also interested in what additions to the site you would find useful or interesting. So far, we...