Episode 14 of Marinations has an interview with Fran Quittel about how she and others that she met through the web organized to secure a 270M payback to depositors who lost funds when IndyMac bank failed in 2008. They fought for 2 years and used a fascinating combination of web tools like Google groups, Google Alerts, blogs, web pages, web collaboration and good old hard work to get a bill through the U.S. Congress that extended the FDIC depositor protections to some 9500 depositors who lost money in the failure.
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