The techniques of wooden movable-type printing are transmitted through families by rote and word of mouth.

UNESCO: Culture

One of the worlds oldest printing techniques, wooden movable-type printing is maintained in Ruian County, Zhejiang Province, where it is used in compiling and printing clan genealogies.

UNESCO: Culture

An upstart, Six Apart in SanFrancisco, owns three blogging services--TypePad, LiveJournal and Movable Type--that together run a strong second to Google.

FORBES: Attack of the Blogs

When Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type a half-millennium ago, he also gave us immovable text.

WSJ: Nicholas Carr on E-Books

The movable characters can be used time and again after the type-page is dismantled.

UNESCO: CULTURE