Information to me is just a representation of another thing with some of the details removed.
A very tactile example of information is a statue. It can have all the features of a person. You can learn how a person appeared from their statue, it has the information of the positions of parts of their face in it, but obviously something is missing about that person.
More abstract is an abacus. It can represent numbers using the positions of beads. The numbers themselves just an abstract form of the physical quantities of other things.
Also, a sound wave represented by little bumps on the bottom of a CD is also information. It can be easily transformed into sound by an apparatus that reads that information and uses it to vibrate a magnet, closely reproducing the original sound.
A very tactile example of information is a statue. It can have all the features of a person. You can learn how a person appeared from their statue, it has the information of the positions of parts of their face in it, but obviously something is missing about that person.
More abstract is an abacus. It can represent numbers using the positions of beads. The numbers themselves just an abstract form of the physical quantities of other things.
Also, a sound wave represented by little bumps on the bottom of a CD is also information. It can be easily transformed into sound by an apparatus that reads that information and uses it to vibrate a magnet, closely reproducing the original sound.