Journchat has a friend.

The popular Monday night chat on Twitter, held weekly from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. EST and founded by Sarah Evans (@PRSarahEvans), is now flanked by a related chat on Wednesday nights, Journo Cafe.

Founded by Seamus Condron (@SeamusCondron), Mediabistro community manager, Journo Cafe caters to the journalism community in two ways: a weekly Twitter chat and a Posterous blog.

Condron says the core theme of Journo Cafe will be “promoting the growing relationship between journalism and community.” He sees it as adding to the Journchat discussion.

“Journchat is usually a great conversation,” he said. “Sarah Evans has done a great job leveraging her experience to grow the conversation. It’s mission, as far as I can tell, has always been to focus on the relationship between journos and PR pros. It’s often very ‘pitch’ oriented. That’s valuable of course, but I think there should be other conversation that focus on different aspects of the business.”

Anyone can participate in the Journo Cafe Twitter chat on Wednesdays — 8 p.m.-11 p.m. EST — by posting with the hashtag #JournoCafe and following these tweets. Likewise, anyone can post on the blog, simply by emailing content.

Mark Glaser of PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab (@mediatwit) and Rachel Sklar of Mediaite (@rachelsklar) were among those to stop by for the inaugural Journo Cafe chat tonight. Among issues discussed were commenting systems and the launch of Mediaite.

Condron sees Journo Cafe turning into a useful resource for journalists, as well as social media enthusiasts, and he sees the potential for Journchat and Journo Cafe to work together.

“Ideally, what I’d like is for all the organizers of these various chats to get together at some point, form something similar to a consortium, and build something big, an always evolving resource, almost like a university that’s entirely crowd-sourced,” he said.

As for the blog element of Journo Cafe, Condron said, “The goal is to have a crowd-sourced guide. Right now journalists, traditional and otherwise, need as much assistance they can get to understand how things are evolving in their industry, and how it affects them. There’s such a wealth of valuable information online that can help put people on a right path. Journo Cafe just wants to assist in that effort.”

Why the name?

“The ‘cafe’ part is inspired by the concept of the “newsroom cafe,” which has been written about by a number of journalists. It’s the idea that one day newsrooms will be public enterprises, where anyone can come in to a ‘cafe’ and be part of the process, whether it be to get some training, hear pitches from journalists who are writing crowdfunded pieces, etc. Journo Cafe is more or less a symbolic first step towards that idea.”

Asked to put Journo Cafe into 140 characters or less, Condron boiled it down to these 132: “With the speed at which media evolves now, we need a constant lifeline of resources & conversation so that we can all evolve with it.”

Find Journo Cafe on Twitter here.