We’ve probably already spilled too much online ink over the demise of the P-I print edition and rise of a new eP-I, particularly since it’s shaking out just as everyone thought: No paper, just cyberspace. As well, the P-I’s story today seems to confirm what Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine, the Seattle-based online news aggregator, told us: a revamped P-I web site can be run with 15 to 20 employees – eight full-time writers, three engineers, a managing editor, a designer, and a small office and sales crew, along with free lancers. In some ways, it’s a positive outcome. The P-I’s obit has been reprinted annually over the last decade, with the JOA as the presumed cause of death; it was always a matter of time. The one plus through the long illness has been the rise of seattlepi.com and its several million readers. As Dick Clever wrote for this paper (“P-I Pride”) in 2003, regarding a then-ongoing JOA battle with the Times: “If the courts don’t come to the P-I’s rescue and the Justice Department finds no grounds to intervene, the P-I likely will be forced to close by November 2004.” The paper outlived that prediction. But even six years ago there was no real thought the P-I could survive in another form. Better than nuttin.