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Ed. note: If you’ve read some of the recent coverage around Adam Lashinsky‘s recent comments on what makes Apple tick, you may want to check out the entire interview below. 

For large periods of my professional life, I worked at Fortune as a writer, editor and then as editor of Fortune.com. One of the many great pleasures of the place was working with Adam Lashinsky, a seasoned writer and senior editor-at-large. Each day, he’d call from his office in San Francisco and we’d talk about the business world, office politics, which execs were headed up and which down. Or at least I’d think we were talking. I’d hang up only to realize that I had done all of the talking and Adam had done all of the asking and listening.

Is SOPA really dead? If you believe Mashable’s headline in what is our most shared story of the week, the Stop Online Piracy Act has moved on to its final resting place. But if you read the words of the act’s chief sponsor, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, it sounds more like SOPA is just getting smelling salts in the corner. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach,” says Smith. “Congress cannot stand by and do nothing while American innovators and job creators are under attack.” This is the second week in a row that SOPA news has topped the professional conversation. Last week, workers from all industries shared articles about the Internet taking on Hollywood (with Congress trying to measure the shifting winds). This week, most of the sharing was done in industries that would have been impacted by SOPA: largely, software, online, publishing, and TV and film. The rest of the working world had turned to other matters. For instance, would there be jobs for them, and if there were, would those jobs require them to live in a dormitory in China? Here’s the list:

Top 5 most-shared articles on LinkedIn (Jan 19, 2012 – Jan. 26, 2012) Follow @LinkedInToday

Ed. note: This is a guest post from UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the Red Tape Challenge aimed at reducing regulation in UK and the accompanying LinkedIn poll and group that’s been used to gather feedback from our UK members on the topic.

Come every new year, getting back in shape is often on our minds. To help with our new year’s resolutions, the first InDay of 2012 was focused on Health and Wellness. Last year Mountain View set the bar on January InDay for health and wellness, but this year the rest of the world showed Mountain View how it is done. Around the world, our offices hosted a wide range of health and wellness activities from yoga classes to Quad biking.