A strong quarterly report by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas confirms his reputation as a capable fund-raiser.

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The Caucus: Perry Campaign Reports $17 Million Haul

While traditionalists may see a risk to his reputation, Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show is his effort as one of the great hopes to inherit the audience Oprah Winfrey left behind.

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Anderson Cooper Seeks to Show his Daytime Side

Senior academics in the UCU lecturers’ union say they fear more for-profit universities could damage the reputation of higher education in the UK.

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For-profit universities caution

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s financial acumen is widely praised at the International Monetary Fund, but disturbing sexual charges mar his reputation.

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Atop I.M.F., Contradiction and Energy

Nearly a year after an acquittal on molestation charges, Sean Lanigan’s torment hasn’t ended. The Fairfax teacher and coach is struggling to redeem his reputation and career. Read full article > >

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A life shaken by false allegations

Take a look at OrganizedWisdom.com and you see a strange mix of ambitions. The website’s category pages (acid reflux, erectile dysfunction, IBS) and general clickable clutter might make you suspect that it’s a content farm intent on picking up WebMD’s scraps. But under the hood, there’s an interesting idea cooking. OrganizedWisdom is creating a way of evaluating the authority of health-related social media users, which they can layer over Google’s relevance algorithms, so that they can surface useful health information from vetted sources. As doctors and other health experts increase their output on social media, Organized Wisdom thinks they can scoop up that information and turn it into the backbone for their site. As explained by new board member and former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, the site wants to “correct an algorithm frenzy” by which people search for health information online and find only perfectly search engine optimized content written by people who may or may not know what they’re talking about. OrganizedWisdom has verified more than 6,000 social media accounts as having some kind of expert knowledge. Levin sees their output on Facebook, blogs, and Twitter as “a treasure trove that needs to be organized.” Of course, that is the hard part. Unity Stoakes, one of the company’s co-founders, described their mission as building a “trust filter for health and wellness, something that’s never been done.” He compared their task to eBay’s — connecting sellers (patients) with respectable buyers (doctors/experts). His other corollary was Quora , the Silicon Valley question-and-answer site, which has morphed into a community filled with technology experts. But eBay had the advantage that sellers had a far greater incentive to be vetted and verified on the site than do the doctors OrganizedWisdom’s collecting. And Quora established a very strong early community that was dedicated to maintaining the quality of the information on the site. Organized Wisdom’s relationship with its experts is one step removed. They’re scraping what doctors and experts do on other sites and re-presenting it in ways that they think are more useful. Though Levin and Stoakes contend that doctors will see value in what their website does, I doubt the good ones will work as hard as eBay sellers or Quora users do to make sure that their reputation on the site will be well-maintained.  The germ of an idea represented by OrganizedWisdom is fascinating. Distilling and storing useful health information from the social web would be a valuable service indeed, but I’m not sure it’s going to be easy or even doable.

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Can Curating Doctors’ Tweets Improve People’s Health?

Behold Ubisoft’s new commercial for its randy new Wii game, We Dare . The game, which the company describes as “a sexy, quirky, party game that offers a large variety of hilarious, innovative and physical, sometimes kinky, challenges,” is embarrassing enough, but the commercial actualizes all the worst things you could imagine from that description. Here’s how it goes down: After a nice dinner in their business casual attire, the four gamers get up from the table and head to the couch. Next thing you know, they’re laughing uncomfortably and sort of making out with each other, or a Wii controller dangled between two of them, or both. Next up, the Wii is tucked into the back of one’s pants, then (of course) that person drapes themselves over a teammate, who proceeds to spank them on the Wii. It’s a flying game and you spank to acclerate! Finally, we get to the denouement. What could it be? No?! A striptease game! That is hilarious, innovative and physical. The guys dance and eventually take off their shirts after which we’re lead to believe that something NSFW or at least TV-M takes place, presumably a group sexual encounter. If this scenario sounds improbable to you, you may be sober and may want to consider doing a dozen shots of Jagermeister and reading this again. This commercial is so ridiculous that even YouTube’s notorious awful commenters are making all too much sense in talking about the clip. FergustheJustifier had a point when he noted, “It’s like an Orgy Starter Kit for … 6-year olds. Ubisoft your reputation will never recover from this after all of the pre-teen heavy-petting parties hits the news.” One can only imagine what might have happened at my middle school if this game had made its way into circulation among the cool kids. Yikes. Via Navneet Alang , Tim Carmody .

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Risque Wii Game Begets Most Embarrassing Videogame Ad Ever

For Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the challenges of the coming year could cinch his reputation as a political superstar — or puncture it.

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New Jersey’s Ailing Economy May Test Conservative’s Allure

Steelers linebacker James Harrison is troubled by his reputation as a dirty player.

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Harrison Plays On, but Fines Still Sting

John Arum, the son of Bob Arum, was a lawyer who attained impressive achievements far from the boxing world where his father made his reputation.

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After Losing Son, Arum Takes a Step Back