Three meanings of “Information” are distinguished: “Information-as-process”; “information-as-Knowledge”; and “ information-as-thing, ” the attributive use of “Information” to denote things regarded as Information. The nature and characteristics of “information-as-thing” are discussed, using an indirect approach (“What thing are informative?”). Varieties of “information-as-thing” include data, text, documents, objects, and events. On this view “information” includes but extends beyond communication. Whatever information storage and retrieval systems store and retrieve is necessarily “information-as-thing”