Recommended Read: An interview with Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco

Earlier this week, Black Pixel announced that it had acquired NetNewsWire, the venerable RSS reader for the Mac, iPad and iPhone.

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball held a joint-interview with Brent Simmons (the developer behind NNW) and Daniel Pasco from Black Pixel. It is a fantastic read, and deserves a spot in your weekend Instapaper queue.

Stephen Hackett, formerly a Lead Mac Genius at Apple, now spends his days running the IT department of a large non-profit in Memphis, TN. He writes about Apple, design and journalism at forkbombr.net. Like all twenty-somethings, you can find him on Twitter. Oh, and he has a dogcow tattoo.