I think that the author of today's website would probably agree with your assessment of Entourage as "the new Friends," and indeed it does seem to embody the anxieties (?) of his readership in interesting ways. However, in future journals, you might want to give less summary and more commentary / criticism on your subject—that's what Wikipedia is for. Check.
This review of "Scary Movie 3" in an improvement on the method of your previous journal entry, but it could use a bit more explication / revelation of your thought process. For example, you state "I feel like a lot of the parodies they try to use don’t come out right and therefore don’t turn out to be funny." When your reader (remember Trimble—always think of the reader!) sees that sentence, you have to think that they'll be curious about the "why" and the "how"; why don't the parodies come out right, and how are they not funny? You give a brief explanation of this in the second half of your entry, but it's not quite enough to justify the critique. Check.
Several people have commented that they appreciate the commentary on the Garden website more than the actual story, but few people have taken account of the fact that they have *very* different functions, just as a mystery novel and a set of instructions on how to construct a barbecue grill have very different functions. What's particularly interesting, and what I was hoping you would comment on further, is how the hypertext version of the short story adds to or revises the meaning of the printed story itself: why attempt such a project? What does the author of the website hope to add to the story as it stands? Check.
This fairy tale is on the right track for a while, but ends too abruptly; the process of leaving home, encountering the villain, and responding to the villain's recon (in this case a request for money!) seems to follow Propp's model fairly skillfully, but then the story just sort of ends. It could've used a bit more of the middle / ending functions to make it more coherent. Check.
This is an OK response, but I'd like you to endeavor in future journal entries to be more exact in how you refer to the sites. Saying that Blue Velvet is similar in structure to The Garden of Forking Paths and a little less confusing than Chroma tells me something about how the site functions, but to create a truly effective journal entry you should be more specific and in-depth about what elements of the text in question differ from its surrounding texts (and, perhaps, why this is important). Check.
The characters certainly are unusual, and lend an air of fantasy (or at least science fiction) to some aspects of the book; it's true that "real" people generally don't act like this, but then "real" people generally aren't allergic to marketing either… This is a fine response, but you might want to dig a little deeper; if these people distinctly aren't realistic, what sort of statement about the "real" world is Gibson trying to make with this collection of weirdos? Check.
A bit of an unusual response since it blends reading from this time and last time. Your reading of the relationship between Cayce and Bigend is a little odd, too; what evidence in the text is there to suggest a potentially strong (even romantic) association between them? An OK job, but be sure to be specific and in-depth in your address of the text. Check.
Journal 8 is OK, though it seems to wonder about a few things that are stated pretty directly in the reading; Bigend has essentially hired Dorotea both in accession to her demands and to neutralize her snooping. It's the Russian backers who seem to be the actual antagonists. Be sure to read carefully for these details, since if you miss them you'll be in the dark! Check.
A good description of these events with a particular eye to how they contradict or revise certain assumptions that we might have had about how it was going to play out. The biggest twist might be Dorotea, as it seemed like she had been "neutralized" by Bigend earlier on in the book, but now she's back! Check-plus.
A fine journal, though I would've appreciated you talking more about the content of the game itself rather than the concept behind it… the concept is indeed interesting, but it seems that the issues and themes of the story that Photopia presents deserves some attention. Check.