Strategies for Research

What strategies do you use when you research?

Interestingly, this question really throws me for a loop. "Research" used to be such a defined activity. It involved going to the library, checking out books, scouring catalogs and journals, and indeed the occassional Internet search. However, I've been mostly out of school for four years, and those formal means of research have largely fallen by the wayside for me. This doesn't mean I don't research anymore. Far from it, but anymore it seems my research is mostly an amorphous collection of browsing the Internet.

I feel very much like a technological migrant, always struggling to keep up with those around me who by the virtue of their very upbringing are much more comfortable with their surroundings.