Comments on blogs vary quite considerably. I was on one blog that was devoted to people complaining about iPower, a web server that evidently was very good but took a very bad turn in around 2005 and now people are trying to escape. It was interesting to hear how hard it can be to get a company to fee your domain so you can transfer it to another company. The comments on this blog did offer some advice, but not that much - it was more a place for venting (disguised as customer education, I suppose).
Other comments on other blogs, especially those connected to professions and technical issues, are designed to give advice. I'm thinking in particular of sites such as http://css.weblogsinc.com/, create a space where people can have their questions answered or join in on conversations about aspects of the field.
Another function of comments on blogs is more personal, offering people a more or less public diary with pictures, commentary and anything else connected to someone's life. Typically, I think these have very little interest to anyone but someone's personal friends (or stalkers, I suppose), who are the only people likely to comment on the blogs. Stumbling upon some unknown person's personal blog, and the comments attached to it, makes you realize how boring people are (and make you question why you're making a blog yourself, I suppose).
A fourth function, which is sometimes a combination of the technical and personal genres, is the political commentary blogs, which can be little more than a rant but can also offer very informed and nuanced analyses of political events, characters, and so on. The comments in this can be rants, but also reactions that actually engage in a debate, point to further information, flawed reasoning, and so on.
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