Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes all-digital

The first sign of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's imminent demise came when they changed the Web address. Formerly linked to a portal shared with its print and broadcast competitors, it changed -- literally overnight -- Monday to http://www.seattlepi.com/. Later that day came the announcement: Tuesday's print edition would be the last.

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P-I editorial cartoonist David Horsey was there with a column (a blog, actually, but old ways of speaking die hard) headlined The end and a new beginning" ... which turned out to be an account of how he and several other staffers sneaked up to the globe on the top of the P-I building. (It's the same globe you see depicted at the top of the webpage.)

And with the new day, there would be new challenges, new opportunites, a new era unfolding. This city would be moving forward without its oldest newspaper, but the offspring of that newspaper, seattlepi.com, would now be operating under the globe -- an experiment in telling Seattle's story a different way.

Also a cartoon on the same theme ... hardly Horsey's best, but equal to the occasion.