As for information, I would define it as consisting of "written/oral/aural communications that have a clear utility based solely in the context in which they appear. –SS

Say object A and object B have states. If the state of B is at all contingent on the state of A, then the causal connection that links B's state to A's is the transfer of information from A to B. – TW

This is our work, I think: recognizing and then explaining the transcendence, the meaning. information is what we have to deal w/, noise is what we discard. what's left is the meat: the meaning. – AD

When information is employed, deployed, used in conversation, research, teaching, I think of it as a catalyst, a springboard to deeper thought, to further communication. And when it is not in motion, when it isn't in play, when it is stored, waiting in its category, on its shelf, in its file, I think of it as potential energy. But what it is, out of these two contexts, I have trouble thinking about. –ES

Donde esta la…? Wo ist der…? Pourriez vous me renseignez…? Can you tell me where to find…? –KR at the Informations desk

Information lays claim to prompt verifiability. The prime requirement is that it appear 'understandable in itself'...because of this it proves incompatible with the spirit of storytelling....it is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it...thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks. --Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller"

Meaning is information that has been discarded: information that is no longer present and no longer needs to be. Information and meaning are rather like money and wealth. Real value, real wealth, is a matter of...the money you have spent, money you used to have: utility values you have obtained by paying for them. Likewise information: It is only when you have got enough of the stuff that you realize it has no value in itself. --Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

OED II. 7. Formation or moulding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge…the act of inspiring, giving form to, animating.

OED 4. The legal action of charge, complaint, accusation

OED 3.d.: As a mathematically defined quantity… now esp. one which represents the degree of choice exercised in the selection or formation of one particular symbol, sequence, message, etc., out of a number of possible ones, and which is defined logarithmically in terms of the statistical probabilities of occurrence of the symbol or the elements of the message.The latter sense (introduced by Shannon, quot. 19482, though foreshadowed earlier) is that used in information theory, where information is usually regarded as synonymous with entropy.