I think there is a distinction to be made between information in the ontological sense and information in the pragmatic sense. The former does not have any purchase on "meaning" or "use", only a metric of informational entropy or degrees of freedom, irrespective of observation. However, the sense in which you speak of information is the pragmatic dimension, where an observer receives a datum of semantic content against a given backdrop of pre-established "meaning". This sense is problematic as an objective metric.