Best of the blogs: Macworld starts today and, likewise, so does a veritable flood of coverage. First up is Tom Yager, who has been pondering some possibilities about the coming SDK. “Why do an SDK? Certainly not to make the world happy. If Apple spoke with me about iPhone, it would point out that I’m among a tiny handful of people campaigning for a native iPhone SDK,” he writes in Thoughts on the iPhone/iPod touch SDK. “The question in my mind is how developers will get paid. Is Apple going to cut hundreds of developers individual checks? Will Apple demand to be the only source through which signed applications can be acquired?” Notes from the field: Mr. Yager is not the only InfoWorld writer thinking about Macworld. Our own gonzo journalist, Robert X. Cringely, is on the road again this week, after CES in Las Vegas just last week. “I was on the edge of the desert just outside Cupertino when the drugs began to wear off,” Cringe begins in Fear and loathing at Jobs World. Three days later, and he’s wandering San Francisco streets hunting down the hallowed Moscone Center for Macworld. “What happened in between is kind of a blur, but I wouldn’t rule out an alien abduction.” Along the way, he jotted down notes, and rumors, on cocktail napkins… Ongoing coverage: Macworld 2008. The news beat: The W3C plans to detail SPARQL, a query technology that will boost the Semantic Web and may even force Google to rethink its search model. Cognos updates its Cognos 8 BI tools with expanded performance management, one day after shareholders voted to approve IBM’s proposed acquisition of the company. Perimeter eSecurity buys SECCAS (Secure Electronic Communications Compliance Archival System) for its e-mail management products tailored for financial services companies. And security researchers say that MacSweeper may be the first instance of rogue scareware for Macs; the Web site selling the program contains corporate information that, F-Secure says, is plagiarized from Symantec.Full disclosure: Macworld is owned by IDG World Expo, which has the same parent company as InfoWorld. Software Development