Trends and Issues Alerts: provided a brief description of an emerging trend and related issues, with an annotated list of information sources, including organizations and websites.

UNESCO: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), USA

But within the company description and history, you can often discover all kinds of great tidbits of information that might not be included in the financial statements itself.

FORBES: The Copy-Paste Financial Plan

Some retailers share information about purchases made by people, including item description, price and the person's name.

WSJ: Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients

An EA is the explicit description and documentation of the current and desired relationships among business and management processes and information technology.

WHITEHOUSE: CIRCULAR NO. A-130 Revised

Mr Vedral gives a good description of how Shannon's information theory can be applied to winning at blackjack or in buying shares (Shannon and his friends made fortunes in Las Vegas as well as on the stockmarket).

ECONOMIST: Information theory

And (speaking of real estate) which sort of ad is more likely to sell a house nowadays: the newspaper's truncated description with a single, low-resolution thumbnail, or a virtual tour with live mapping services and geographical and geopolitical information with feature comparisons to other properties available?

CNN: Why dirty up my hands with newsprint?