Caner Ozdemir's Web site was not supposed to draw this much attention.

The goal of the site was never to cause Ozdemir to give six interviews a day. And it was never supposed to be mentioned in The New York Times or by a presidential candidate in a concession speech. And it certainly was not meant to draw negative publicity for the candidate that Ozdemir was supporting.

It was just aimed at making a bunch of his friends laugh.

But instead, the site that Ozdemir created logged 10,000 hits overnight and more than half a million hits in just over two weeks.

The site Ozdemir created, www.deangoesnuts.com, serves as a host for dozens of remixes of Howard Dean's infamous concession speech after last month's Iowa caucuses.

During the speech, the candidate shouted the names of 13 states that he pledged to visit in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. At the end of that speech, he let out a scream, which is featured prominently in many of the mixes on Ozdemir's site.

The remixes pair up Dean's yelling with musical accompaniment from both famous and not-so-famous songs.

The tracks have garnered media attention nationally.

Jason "Fish" Miller, operations manager and program director at WQWK-FM (97.1), QWK Rock, said that a remix was played on his station's morning show shortly after the speech.

"Now, though, we just use it for comic effect," Miller said.

A.J. Meyer, assistant program director at WGMR-FM (101.1), The Revolution, said that his station has played it during its request show.

"It's not a normal rotation thing," Meyer said. "It's not like a No. 1 phone thing, but we've had a few requests."

But on the night of the Iowa caucuses, Ozdemir was simply a 21-year-old junior at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., having a good time with friends at a party when the speech came on.

"We all just started crying, it was so funny," he said. "I wanted to go online and find that speech so I could laugh at it again."

And when he did, Ozdemir found something he thought was funnier than the speech itself: two of the remixes.

Using some Web space he had available, he posted the remixes online so his friends could hear them, and he went to bed.

When he woke up, he was fast on the way to becoming a media spectacle. People began sending him more and more remixes to post. Soon Ozdemir registered www.deangoesnuts.com as the site's domain.

A week later, in Dean's New Hampshire concession speech, the candidate told people to go to the Web site.

At first the site was merely an apolitical place to hear the remixes.

"A lot of people go there because they support Dean," Ozdemir said. "And a lot of people go there because they hate Dean. Most of the stuff could go either way."

But after a story in The New York Times five days after the site's creation, Ozdemir decided to make his site pro-Dean.

"That story pissed me off," he said. "The media's biased. They'll try to twist stuff."

He felt that the Times' story was anti-Dean and portrayed Ozdemir, as the site's operator, as anti-Dean as well.

"I blame the climate," he said. "I think reporters are expected to turn in certain things."

The funny thing, though, is that Ozdemir, an independent, actually supports the former Vermont governor.

Ozdemir has followed politics since the first George Bush, he said. And if he had voted in 2000, he would have voted for George W. Bush.

"I'm not going to skip voting anymore," he said. "That was a mistake. I'll never do that again."

Now Ozdemir has changed his view of the president.

"I definitely want someone to replace Bush," he said.

And he wants that someone to be Howard Dean.

"He seems too unscripted to be lying," Ozdemir said. "That's kind of what I liked about Bush."

So when he saw his site used to attack the very candidate whom he wanted to win the election, the site became a place for Ozdemir to speak his mind.

Now there are links on www.deangoesnuts.com to donate to the Dean for America campaign. In the first four days the link was up, $860 was raised for the campaign.

Ten of those dollars came from Ozdemir himself, and his goal is to raise $5,000 by November.

Ozdemir has also posted many of his thoughts about the campaign on his site, including a list of 10 reasons why he thinks current Democratic frontrunner John Kerry is not electable and 10 reasons he feels that Dean is.

But even though the 21-year-old computers and business major has made his site political, he still says that he doesn't want to push his views on people.

"Don't let people tell you what to think," Ozdemir said. "Make your decisions on your own, and that will be best for everyone."