Powerblogs now offers two news plans: a $15/year plan and a $25/year plan. Designed for low-volume blogs, these plans should work well for people who want to blog only for friends and family, or for people who just want to try out blogging to see if they like it. (There will very shortly be an easy upgrade path from these plans to one of the high volume plans.)
So, if you know anyone who wants to get into blogging with great software but doesn't want to spend $5 a month, let them know! ;-)