Submit newsAdvertise & rates  18°C Johannesburg Contact us

James Siddall

Freelance writer & media consultant
James Siddall is a freelance writer and media consultant, contributing to a variety of outlets from The Sunday Independent to The Saturday Star to Car magazine's website. He can be reached at and wants to get his very own website, but is incandescent that someone else was quicker and cleverer than him and has already taken jamessiddall.com.
All | Articles | Comments | Profile

Write on! A freelancer's whinge
[James Siddall] Ah, freelancing! Wake up at midday, dash off a bit of rubbish and then freeload the night away. But, idyllic as it might sound, being a freelance writer can mean dealing with organisations and individuals like the ones here... 7 Oct 2010 14:09
To pay or not to pay...
[James Siddall] The electrifying question of whether or not employees must be paid during load-shedding continues to have an insidious effect on the economy. 17 Mar 2008 14:24
The dog ate it...
[James Siddall] Are South African employees more creative than most when it comes to being economical with the truth – or lying as it is better known? 22 Feb 2008 15:51
Into the darkness
[James Siddall] Counting the hidden cost of power failures - or "load-shedding" as Eskom hilariously terms it... 12 Feb 2008 07:33
How to avoid 'netiquette' breaches
[James Siddall] Once upon a time corporate correspondence was generally limited to starchy memos generated - at their boss's behest - by steely-haired keepers of the corporate gates. In the past decade or so, that's all changed and with the almost universal advent of email in the workplace, things have become a lot more egalitarian - and, frankly, sloppy. 19 Jun 2007 07:55
Of thieves, liars and serial liquidators...
[James Siddall] One of the first, fundamental lessons of journalism I learnt - or rather, was taught, which is not necessarily the same as absorbed - was this: avoid the use of the word "I". And do not venture or proffer your opinion unless the piece is specifically an editorial or column. 4 Apr 2007 18:15
The power of babble
[James Siddall] The modern corporate world is infatuated with cringe-inducing buzzwords... But what's fascinating - and not necessarily in a good way - is that over the past few years there has been a discernible growth in the use of superfluous and stupid euphemisms, catch-phrases and job titles in the business world. 5 Feb 2007 15:45
Porn free - abusing Internet access
[James Siddall] Not even legendary futurist and science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke could and would have predicted that, with all of humanity's accumulated knowledge no more than a few keystrokes away, by far the most frequent Internet searches would revolve around...sex...in all its permutations, imaginable and otherwise. 31 Jan 2007 17:57

Subscribe

Receive free email newsletter

Make us your homepageAdd us to your favoritesRSS feedGet biz on your phoneFollow us

Invite

Tell a friend about us