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Welcome to ChaliceMedia,

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We create (fictitious) story worlds, and the people, places, and organizations that inhabit them for a realtime expanded reading experience. Our dual-purpose stories not only provide fun reading, but also serve as research and development platforms to anticipate changes in the reading experience driven by technology, time, and interest.

If you are a content producer (publishers, writers, musicians, filmmakers, marketers, et al), our websites can provide you with ideas and working prototypes of our emerging media architecture. Our sites and presentations can teach you about tools you can use for your own deployments, and an array of examples provided by our own multi-platform creative projects. Browse, learn, and contact us.

Many people wonder about the uses of "us" and "we" throughout this website, when they know that it's just Ron doing everything. True...when the page was created...but Ron's dream is to build something that will allow us to employ a number of our neighbors, right here in our LOCAL (e.g. NOT Offshore, BestShore, SomeShore) community.

There are company search engines out there that report us as multimillion dollar corporation with hundreds of employees. Evidently some BOTS haven't been taught the word (fictitious) which now appears at least sixty+ times on the pages of this website, and appears clearly on EVERY one of our websites which represents a fictitious entity.

And... no... since ChaliceMedia LLC is not publicly held, I do not release any information regarding revenues or expenses. As of 27 January 2012 at 14:40 MST, this is a SINGLE EMPLOYEE company.

Thanks,
Just Ron B^)

 


 



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As the internet changed, and continues to change nearly everything about human interaction, legions of bright and talented innovators create new methods, media, and mechanisms to bring this power to more people than ever. NOTE: NONE of the links on this page are affiliate links, (e.g. they are not advertising and no compensation changes hands or information is gathered when you click on one.) They are provide for the sole purpose of providing you more information on products that we use on a daily basis to keep our world alive.

Open Source

 

Open Source Initiative LogoAt the core of this growth is the Open Source Initiative which provides the "ground rules" for the global collaboration necessary to pull everything together.

 

 

 

ChaliceMedia uses a number of Open Source products for the creation of both R&D prototype and live production environments.

WordPress LoigoWordPress is one of the most widely used Open Source software projects in the world. We currently have nearly 30 WordPress installations in R&D or production environments with a number of new installations planned over the next months. WordPress is available as dowloadable software for your own hosted site (at WordPress.Org) or as a hosted solution at WordPress.com. Our HoarseMan blog is hosted by WordPress.com

 

 

Powered by Joomla logWe currently have approximately 20 Joomla! CMS sites in R&D or production environments. Joomla! is a powerful and award-winning Open Source Content Management System (CMS). We've found it to be powerful and scalable -- up to the largest site we can currently imagine. The site you're currently visiting (ChaliceMedia.com) is a Joomla 1.5 based website.

 

 

b2Evolution loglMany of our core sites have a need to be "several" sites in one. The Open Source application b2Evolution gives us exactly what we need to pull it off.

 

 

Additional Open Source software we use either R&D or production environments on a daily basis:

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Hosting and hosted sites

BlueHost logoApproximately 80% of our content is hosted on BlueHost servers, some since the very beginning. For several years now, we've had incredible up time, an amazing support. Thanks BlueHost!

 

 

Our research and development results indicated that Blogger could provide an ideal platform for much of our specialized content. We currently have nearly a dozen, live sites.

 

And, of course, you can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+

 

Last Updated on Sunday, 13 May 2012 14:29
 

Advertising Policy

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This advertising policy applies to all ChaliceMedia websites.

1. Limited Use: Advertising will only be displayed on websites for which it is appropriate.

  • Our education websites will not contain any advertising matter or materials
  • Websites for fictitious organizations, e.g. Acolytica.org, Boulder-Springs.us, will not contain advertising when the common practice for a real-life counterpart to the site e.g. government would NOT utililize advertising.
  • Websites for fictitious media organizations e.g. Solace Creek Statesman, York Broadcast, will contain real advertising because their real-life counterpart organizations would do so.

2. Non-competition: Advertising will not be displayed that is competitive with our own current or future brands, trademarks, or creative enterprise.

3. Non-Sensitive: Advertising for certain products or services that have a high level of sensitivity in the general marketplace e.g. sexual products, gambling, religion, etc.

4. Corporations are NOT People: To the best of our knowledge, we will not not provide advertising for PACs or ANY other type of advertising that purports or promotes the idea that corporations should have an equal or or more powerful voice than human individuals, and should not be afforded any special privileges or rights e.g. the ability to buy and sell politicians, judges, and other officials.

5. Deceptive Practices and Deliberately Ambiguous Policies and/or Terms: To the best of our knowledge we will not provide advertising for any organization that WE BELIEVE uses any of these practices. e.g. financial organizations that intentionally provide thousands of small-print words as statements of "policy."

6. Market Predators: We will block advertising for any organization that has been classified as predatory by industry experts e.g. WriterBeware.com or PreditorsandEditors.com, or by the Federal Trade Commission or and State Regulatory Organization or any organization that monitors for age discrimination and predatory practices against age groups.

7. Hate and Discriminatory Practices: We will block advertising for any hate organization, or and any organization which practices discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or age.

If you see any ads on our website that violate the above, please contact us.

ChaliceMedia sites containing advertising:

 

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Browser Compatibility

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Browser Compatibility

The ChaliceMedia websites listed below are tested (or have been tested) with the following browsers and operating systems:

  • Google Chrome (current)
  • Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9
  • Mozilla Firefox 3, Firefox 4, Firefox 5
  • Opera 9 Opera 10
  • Safari 5
  • Mobile Emulators for Nokia and Sony-Erickson
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ChaliceMedia Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

At the same time that ChaliceMedia LLC is committed to bringing you information that may be tailored to your individual needs, we recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information collected about you, our customers and prospects. In adopting this customer privacy policy, our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information with your reasonable expectations of privacy.

ChaliceMedia LLC does not collect personally identifying information about individuals, except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals.

Web servers serving ChaliceMedia LLC automatically collect information about which pages each user visits and the domain name of visitors. This is used for internal review, to tailor information quality, and for traffic audits. We do not provide this information do any third party organization.

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Disclaimer

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Important Information About ChaliceMedia Creations

The primary purpose of ChaliceMedia is to create FICTITIOUS story worlds for unlimited types of media and multimedia, including online environments. All characters, places, companies, and organizations that are part of either our story worlds or other online and media environments are FICTITIOUS creations, any resemblance to actual persons, places, companies and organizations is unintentional. In certain cases characters, places, companies and organizations may be a satirical representation of a public entity.

Imagine our dismay to find parts of our fictional world showing up in websites as real entities, our characters as real people, with companies claiming that they can provide REAL BACKGROUND CHECKS and historical information. Could it be that we are doing our work too well?

ChaliceMedia ensures that every online component of our story worlds contains visible text on every page stating that the people, places, and organizations mentioned therein are FICTITIOUS. As such, ChaliceMedia assumes NO RESPONSIBILITY for any search engine, directory service, recruiting organization, background checks organization, or other trolling spiderbot that REPRESENTS OUR FICTITIOUS ENTITIES AS BEING REAL PERSONS, PLACES, COMPANIES, or ORGANIZATIONS.

This disclaimer covers all ChaliceMedia websites, publications, and multimedia currently in existence, or created for a future project. Direct references to the majority of these created entities can be found on our brands pages (www.chalicemedia.com/brands) or on our trademarks page (www.chalicemedia.com/trademark-information). Defacto trademarks are established for every entity listed on our trademarks page by being put to immediate use in an online environment (which may include, but does not require, the assignation of a domain name and creation of a related web presence) upon creation.

ChaliceMedia is moving forward in many directions, trying to anticipate developments in publishing and other entertainment industries for the balance of the 21st Century.

Last Updated on Friday, 19 August 2011 05:53
 

Quick Credits Flash Movie

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Ron Lynch Chalice is a pseudonym of ChaliceMedia's founder Ron Heimbecher. Just for fun, here's a quick Flash™ Movie of some television, film, music and theater credits for Ron Lynch Chalice:

Last Updated on Sunday, 01 February 2009 06:54
 

Trademark Information

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ChaliceMedia™ Trademark Information

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The following are defacto trademarks of ChaliceMedia LLC: (++ indicates a fictitious organization, company, or location that is part of the ChaliceMedia Distributed Creative Content permanent infrastructure.)

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