Taxonomy of Communications:

I have an ongoing project of taxonometrically analyzing different kinds of communications in search for a better understanding of what elements characterizes interesting, good, or successful conversations in different media.

Taxonomy of Communications
	Real-time lost	Real-time captured	Time-shifted captured
1 to 1	Conversations
			Email
	Chat (Text/2D/3D)	Chat transcripts, Comic Chat (2D)
	Telephone		Voicemail/answering machines
			Paging
	Tech Support
	Tutoring
	Therapy
1 to Many	Television		Videotape
	Moderated Chat	Chat transcript, Comic Chat
	Presentations/Seminars	Presentation/Seminar materials
	Lectures/Speeches	Lecture notes/Speech transcripts
	Movies		Videotape
	Performances		Audio tape/CDs
			Email Aliases/List Servs
			Advertising
			Books/Magazines
			Newspapers/Newsletters
			Paging (advanced)
			Voicemail (advanced)
			USENET (some moderated groups)
			"Conferencing" (some moderated groups)
	Improv
	Push Media
	Amusement Parks
	Classrooms/Training	Class Notes/Textbooks/Workbooks
Many* to 1	Briefings	Briefing notes
			Personalized, automatic newspapers
			Drop Boxes
			USENET (of a sort)
	Push media?
Many to Many	Chat Room (Text/2D/3D)	Chat replay? Comic Chat
	Meetings
	Party line?
	Improv?
			USENET
			"Conferencing" (some moderated groups)

* Many in this context refers to a unified communication happening by one body or agent at one time (even though the agent may consist of many people in succession).

Note: Italics indicates some form of moderation of the communication. Moderation seems to only be possible or present in "1 to Many" communications and is almost always present and prominent in broadcasting and publishing.

Note: I couldn't find any examples of time-shifted communications not captured into some kind of archive or record.

Another way to look at this information is in Matrix form:

 

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