An XML syndication feed is essentially a "data only" version of your journal or weblog. It is a part of your journal expressed in a standardized format. XML feeds make it easier for news search and aggregation services to distinguish between the different elements of your journal such as titles or dates. XML feeds also let people with news-reader software gather weblogs, online journals and other types of news content through a central software application.

In a nutshell, XML feeds make the contents of your journal more portable. Elements of your journal such as titles, dates, or summaries are more easily recognized by other websites and web applications. So the bottom line is that this helps form more and better connections between your journal and other journals out there, including ones that were generated on platforms other than Easyjournal. XML syndication makes it more likely that your journal will be discovered by people inside and outside of Easyjournal.

Easyjournal generates feeds using the Atom specification and the RSS 2.0 specification.

Learn more about RSS 2.0 here.
Learn more about Atom here.