For now, Seattle daily journalism hasn’t taken the deep nosedive predicted after the shuttering of the P-I’s print edition, having spawned dozens of new blogs and expanded online coverage, with another ex-P-I staffer web site set to debut June 1. Hearst reports continued strong readership at Seattlepi.com while the Times grew online and, thanks to the P-I’s de-inking, watched its print circulation soar by 95,000. The Times is doing this with at least 500 fewer employees and the P-I has lopped off about 150. Both corporations also cut back in worker pay and benefits. The P-I had been mostly silent about how many, exactly, it would employ on its web site, but it now lists a news staff of 21, if you include the accounting coordinator, whatever that be (then again, what be a “news gatherer” or “multimedia commentator”? Welcome to webspeak).The new Seattle PostGlobe, which has an advertising and content link with Seattle Weekly, is still struggling to get wherever it’s going. It’s thin on news, commentary and graphics but is promising to bulk up soon. Another P-I alumni group, headed in part by ex-assistant ME Rita Hibbard, is preparing to launch InvestigateWest; its clean, print-like site is up and running with details about its plans and general info about staff, aiming to unfold its first expose next month. It promises “smart, street-level journalism…online reporting, crowdsourcing, and database publishing,” and will offer its stories to news organizations on a subscription basis as well as display them on its website. The group’s new blog, Western Exposure, is in the construction stage. The site will apparently operate without one of its biggest boosters, ex-P-I ME David McCumber, who now has a plateful on the East Coast.